AI Speech & Audio Specialist – ASR | TTS | Voice AI | Audio Data - (Netherlands)
Job description
An AI Speech & Audio Specialist role in TELUS Digital's AI Community, contributing to the development and improvement of speech AI technologies such as ASR, TTS, Voice AI, and audio machine learning systems. Specialists evaluate, create, refine, and improve high-quality speech and audio datasets.
At a glance
- Employment
- Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
- Pay
- USD 6 – 40 / hour
What you'll do
- Evaluate AI-generated speech (TTS) for naturalness, pronunciation accuracy, rhythm, tone, emotion, and overall voice quality
- Review and improve speech recognition outputs (ASR) by identifying transcription errors, pronunciation issues, accents, and linguistic nuances
- Perform professional audio editing tasks including segmentation, trimming, noise reduction, silence adjustment, and quality enhancement
- Analyze audio recordings using waveform and spectrogram-based tools to identify quality issues
- Support the creation and validation of high-quality speech datasets used for AI model training and evaluation
- Review voice recordings for clarity, consistency, articulation, and technical quality
- Perform audio quality checks including loudness levels, background noise detection, clipping, distortion, and export specifications
- Support voice AI projects including TTS, ASR, voice generation, voice similarity, voice mimicry, and conversational AI evaluation
- Apply expertise in phonetics, linguistics, audio engineering, or speech technology to improve AI-generated voice experiences
What we're looking for
- Minimum of one of the following: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Audio Engineering, Sound Engineering, Music Technology, Linguistics, Phonetics, Speech-Language Pathology, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science (Speech/AI focus), or related audio or speech fields
- OR professional experience in audio production, sound design, dialogue editing, voice recording, podcast/audio post-production, speech data creation, or AI speech projects
- Experience with at least one professional audio tool: Adobe Audition, iZotope RX, Pro Tools, Reaper, Audacity, Logic Pro, Cubase, or other Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs)
- Knowledge of audio editing and restoration, noise reduction, speech segmentation, spectrogram analysis, audio quality assessment, and voice/audio processing workflows
- Native-level proficiency (C1/C2+) in the required language is preferred for language-specific projects
- Ability to identify pronunciation, accent, and linguistic nuances
- English proficiency sufficient to understand technical instructions and project guidelines
Nice to have
- Experience with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Experience with Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- Experience with Voice AI
- Experience with speech datasets
- Experience with audio annotation
- Experience with voice cloning or voice mimicry projects
- Experience with ADR / dubbing
- Experience with localization audio
- Experience with broadcast or media production
- Experience with AI model evaluation
Your team
AI Community
A global network of more than one million contributors from diverse backgrounds who help customers collect, enhance, train, translate, and localize content to build better AI models.
Benefits
Impactful Expertise: Use your native language and academic degree to shape real-world AI systems and products used by millions every day
- Community Connection: Work remotely as part of a 1M+ diverse global AI Community of contributors and experts
- Hands-on Innovation: Gain experience in the latest AI research, evaluation, and fine-tuning methodologies
- Global Collaboration: Collaborate with a network of specialists across 20+ domains and 500+ languages and dialects
- Flexible Engagement: Manage your own schedule while making a meaningful impact on the future of technology
How to get hired
- 1Subject-specific qualification assessment
- 2Practical audio/speech evaluation (where applicable)
- 3Identity verification process
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About TELUS International AI Inc
TELUS Digital AI Community
Our global AI Community is a vibrant network of more than one million contributors from diverse backgrounds who help customers collect, enhance, train, translate, and localize content to build better AI models.
Mission
At TELUS Digital, we are advancing the future of Artificial Intelligence by helping AI systems understand, process, and generate human speech with greater accuracy and naturalness.
Key facts
- 1M+ diverse global AI Community
- Global AI Community of more than one million contributors
- Specialists across 20+ domains and 500+ languages and dialects
- Opportunity offered on an independent contractor basis